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No heat here.. Maybe a little warmth during heavy use.. But not near as hot as my gs5 gets.. This thing is super fast.. Blows every other phone out of the water (using gel launcher here and running art) battery seems really good so far.. Only on my second charge cycle.. And yes it's worth every penny.
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You're going to get different opinions from everyone based on phone they're coming from. I personally came from the One X...here are my 2 pennies.
- Heat: Waaaaaaaay less heat than my One X. You could seriously cook spam off the back of my phone. While playing some of these new games, my phone would shut off due to the heat. This phone will get "warm" but I've noticed that it has calmed down quite a bit after the second day. I also have a case on there so it may retain some heat as well. As soon as some custom roms/kernels get made I'm sure this will go away.
TL;DR: I wouldn't worry about heat.
-Performance: I noticed the lag that everyone mentioned but I just kept with it and let the phone settle. There is hardly any lag. Compared to a phone that was 2 years old, this thing flies.
-Battery: I haven't really cared what the battery is doing just yet. I'm always playing games, streaming music, talking on it...you know, doing everything I bought it for; the battery hasn't bothered me yet, so that's gotta be a good sign. I'm letting this settle and then I'll really analyze this. But until kernels are built for the phone, I could care less.
Summary: Yes, this phone was worth waiting out my dreaded AT&T contract, waiting for it to become available from T-Mobile. I have played with all the newest phones (s5, M8, OPO) and this is the winner.
Buy it now.
No issues here. Great upgrade from the Nexus 5 for someone looking for a better camera and larger screen.
Got mine on the 11th and I'm very pleased to say that this is the first device in about the last 6 or 7 that I'm liking very much right out of the box! Don't get me wrong I already have my root apps and installs already planned out, but very good device. No heat (using Velis Auto Brightness App), no noticeable lag, battery has been pretty good (depending on use) and so far worth the money! Haven't seen any of the problems/issues others are/have been reporting either. Coming from SuperAmoled screen on my S4, this screen is quite dim but with some tweaks in the Velis app's brightness curve all is well.
AngryDinosaur said:
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Heat? Not much hotter than any of my other devices I've used, it does get pretty warm while it's on the charger and I'm doing more intensive things, but as a whole heat is a non issue for me. Even playing Asphalt 8 my G2 would heat up way more and would throttle after about 2 stages.
Performance? A little disappointed actually. Out of the box the phone lags and microstutters quite a bit. Most noticeable with animations and switching between apps. Reminds me of the Galaxy S4 which I hated because of those nagging issues. I tried a few things, turning off animations in dev options, switching to ART runtime, trying other launchers, Nova and Apex.
All those things help speed things up, but all have their drawbacks. It's disappointing because you shouldn't have to sacrifice stability or lose functionality to get a smooth running device out of the box. I can see how some owners coming from older devices might view the G3 as a speed demon but I'm coming from an HTC One M8 which is the paragon of Android smoothness, on par with an iOS device if not better. Here's hoping a software update will smooth things up, I remember my G2 was much quicker after each subsequent software update.
Battery life is okay, doesn't seem to match my old G2 which I always thought was amazing. Seems to be on par with my HTC One M8. Nothing spectacular but I gotta give it credit for the removable battery.
Worth every penny? The design is gorgeous, the screen is breathtaking with the right content. 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage and top of the line SOC at the moment for $599? Yes it's worth every penny. If LG optimized the software a bit more and toned down the oversharpening crap on the screen, it would be VERY hard for me to find something else to take it's place in my pocket.
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It gets warm like any other phone.
Fantastic performance, it runs like it should. I haven't experienced any lag. The aux doesnt work with my car but it connects via BT so it's ok but still something to note.
Battery life has been great on my first charge.
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For me personally, its worth it and ill recommend it to anyone. Lg are what's hot right now.
IXChicharitoXI said:
It gets warm like any other phone.
Fantastic performance, it runs like it should. I haven't experienced any lag. The aux doesnt work with my car but it connects via BT so it's ok but still something to note.
Battery life has been great on my first charge.
For me personally, its worth it and ill recommend it to anyone. Lg are what's hot right now.
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I'm really surprised when I see people say they haven't experienced any lag. I mean are some people just not sensitive to microstutters as others? I'm tempted to make a video showing my lag and microstuttering.
Dan37tz said:
I'm really surprised when I see people say they haven't experienced any lag. I mean are some people just not sensitive to microstutters as others? I'm tempted to make a video showing my lag and microstuttering.
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I guess. Maybe if you're someone that buys flagship phones every six months, you'll notice it more. Like coming from a rooted Nexus 5 or M8.
I upgraded from a Galaxy S III. I had that phone for about 2 years so the jump is huge for me compare to that. Even then, I feel the G3 is just as responsive as my Nexus 7. Which i find great considering how many nice features this phone has. Its not barebone like a Nexus.
The lag is definitely there , I disable most settings and apps plus enable art . Much better but not as smooth as the nexus 5 . But is expected with the heavy skin from LG the S5 is the same way
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Dan37tz said:
I'm really surprised when I see people say they haven't experienced any lag. I mean are some people just not sensitive to microstutters as others? I'm tempted to make a video showing my lag and microstuttering.
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You should I would like to see it because as hard as I try I see no lag.
There's definitely lag I was just testing it out at the store just playing around with it opening apps and such.and literally after 2 mins of playing with it. 3 or 4 stutters blew me off
I came from the One M8, Nexus 5 and currently using it along with One Plus One. One thing I noticed after using it for couple of days is it feels very wide compared to other phones. Kind of not a good experience if you are a heavy user and use the phone a lot. Gets little hot compared to other recent phones. Display is good, text is little over sharpened and auto brightness tends to be on the darker side. Performance wise does a decent job but not as good as One plus One or the M8. Camera is definitely better than other android phone I have used recently.
Overall you will be happy if you come from a older device, if you are changing from recent flagship you won't be blown away.
I have enabled art and disabled thermal throttling and it flies. Maybe not the safest method but meh
Out of the box, no lag or screen issues that folks have been complaining about. Coming from a Nexus 5 I'm not a big fan of skins so I threw Nova on. 13 hrs in and I'm sitting at 51% on my battery. I'm really digging this phone.
only had it a few hours
1 NO LAG ! none ! nadda
2 no over saturation of text
3 sleeps like a baby
4 when the screens on it drinks juice like a cheap 2 dollar whore !
over all im happy i picked up the g3
arcanexvi said:
I have enabled art and disabled thermal throttling and it flies. Maybe not the safest method but meh
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How you disable thermal throttling?
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Dxtra said:
How you disable thermal throttling?
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=disable+thermal+throttling+g3
Google is your friend!
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How you disable thermal throttling?
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Dialer code.
3845#*851#
Scroll down to High Temp Property OFF and Toggle it to "on"
I definitely noticed micro stutter on the display models at the store and the white one I got, High Temp Property Mod helps but its still there. I've used the 1+1 the last week and its quite a bit smoother when it comes to scrolling, transitions, opening apps.
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If I remember correctly the Evo had a frame rate lock. Even if it didn't does any one know if its being looked into as a mod to have it removed? The quadrent scores will probably be greatly effected since almost all the videos stay right at 60fps. Lets uncork this bad boy and let it run free any info on it I would live to hear. Mahalo, Wayne
bluefire808 said:
If I remember correctly the Evo had a frame rate lock. Even if it didn't does any one know if its being looked into as a mod to have it removed? The quadrent scores will probably be greatly effected since almost all the videos stay right at 60fps. Lets uncork this bad boy and let it run free any info on it I would live to hear. Mahalo, Wayne
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I don't think it is locked in the same sense that the Evo4G was actually capped. While my FPS2D scores are typically dead-on at 60 it bursts as high as 65 at times, the EVO4G did no such thing.
God, thanks for reminding me of that...that was so frustrating. Especially HTC's response.
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I don't think it is locked in the same sense that the Evo4G was actually capped. While my FPS2D scores are typically dead-on at 60 it bursts as high as 65 at times, the EVO4G did no such thing.
God, thanks for reminding me of that...that was so frustrating. Especially HTC's response.
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what made the response so funny was as they were claiming it couldnt be done, it was already done and made them look STUPID(er)!!!
It's more than likely software capped much like the original Epic.
So that means that in theory it can be uncorked by a a dev some how I hope
It was done on the mesmerize/fascinate with the Glitch kernel. Upped the fps cap to 65 from 60. It might be worth investigating...
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phones looking better and better.
heat issues
iffy battery
Crummy radio/wifi range
apps/games closing out bug
screen on delay
now a frame rate lock?
dayum, might wait a lil longer before i upgrade...
malibu_23 said:
phones looking better and better.
heat issues
iffy battery
Crummy radio/wifi range
apps/games closing out bug
screen on delay
now a frame rate lock?
dayum, might wait a lil longer before i upgrade...
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A critical eye viewing in from the outside might see this as some sort of disaster of a phone...but I don't experience any of this at all, and for some of those items quite the opposite. There are always issues to be worked out when you get a phone on/right after release...that is ALWAYS to be expected...and always remember that the vast majority who are pleased and not having problems typically won't say anything at all...
Personally I don't know about this frame-rate lock...if we can go faster, by all means...but...60 is pretty damned good, though ~65 solid (with a low stdev) would be phenomenal. Someone always crawls out of the woodwork to point out that the human eye isn't capable blah blah blah much above 24fps anyway....but....when I flashed netarchy's kernel on my NS4G and my FPS went from ~60 to ~65 I noticed it right away and it was amazing....so, I won't say so much that it is capped as much as it could be tweaked to go higher. 60fps really is pretty damned good.
daneurysm said:
A critical eye viewing in from the outside might see this as some sort of disaster of a phone...but I don't experience any of this at all, and for some of those items quite the opposite. There are always issues to be worked out when you get a phone on/right after release...that is ALWAYS to be expected...and always remember that the vast majority who are pleased and not having problems typically won't say anything at all...
Personally I don't know about this frame-rate lock...if we can go faster, by all means...but...60 is pretty damned good, though ~65 solid (with a low stdev) would be phenomenal. Someone always crawls out of the woodwork to point out that the human eye isn't capable blah blah blah much above 24fps anyway....but....when I flashed netarchy's kernel on my NS4G and my FPS went from ~60 to ~65 I noticed it right away and it was amazing....so, I won't say so much that it is capped as much as it could be tweaked to go higher. 60fps really is pretty damned good.
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In the history of cell phones no phone has ever been perfect. There are always have been and always will be something to complain about with each and every new phone that comes out. They are made by humans and used by humans. That means some problems may be build / design / software / or user error.
That being said this the GSII is the number one phone in the world as of right now.
Samsung Galaxy S II
stangdriverdoug said:
In the history of cell phones no phone has ever been perfect. There are always have been and always will be something to complain about with each and every new phone that comes out. They are made by humans and used by humans. That means some problems may be build / design / software / or user error.
That being said this the GSII is the number one phone in the world as of right now.
Samsung Galaxy S II
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Amen!
Nothing is and will ever be perfect. That's just the way it is. This happens with cars , houses, other electronics and software and so on...There is always something what "could have been better" or different. Especially when they first come out.
I understand it can be frustrating, however we sometimes need to understand that the complexity of devices nowadays inevitably lead to some flaws. Hopefully they will fix this soon.
As far as the framerate cap goes...I hope no dev is going to take time to change this especially when we have other more important things they could invest their time in.
60fps is BUTTERY SMOOTH and the GS2 does a very good job of hitting that mark most of the time in most apps and games as opposed to 99% of the devices out there that can't. Why waste time on lifting it? So you can score higher Quadrant scores? Completely pointless!
We need apps that utilize the dual cores and gpu, efficiently.
I don't think we are capped because I have seen a few bursts of 70 in quadrant. I think we need to utilize the hardware we have fully, then worry about what may or may not be limited.
malibu_23 said:
phones looking better and better.
heat issues
iffy battery
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now a frame rate lock?
dayum, might wait a lil longer before i upgrade...
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The door is over here troll -> http://****off.com
When you superhuman eye can see more than 60fps, lemme know. FYI, movies in the theater play at 24.
I just think it would be nice to have the cap removed ... we are all here to tweak our phones and mod them which is really fun to do! Just something fun that I would like to see happen. Perdormance is amazing and butter already and this is the best phone out right now. I don't actually have a single complaint about it! Just like modding and tweaking
bondosho said:
When you superhuman eye can see more than 60fps, lemme know. FYI, movies in the theater play at 24.
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you ever look at and old school crt monitor at 60Hz?
i do agree with you that on such a small screen, more that 60fps is more for epeen benches than actual performance.
madsquabbles said:
you ever look at and old school crt monitor at 60Hz?
i do agree with you that on such a small screen, more that 60fps is more for epeen benches than actual performance.
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Bwhahahahaha your name made me lol!
Tbh I had a glimpse of "training day" run through my head when I seen your screen name
(carry on with the useless benchmark improvements)
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The door is over here troll -> http://****off.com
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am i lying? are those not the top issues with this phone?
daneurysm said:
A critical eye viewing in from the outside might see this as some sort of disaster of a phone...but I don't experience any of this at all, and for some of those items quite the opposite. There are always issues to be worked out when you get a phone on/right after release...that is ALWAYS to be expected...and always remember that the vast majority who are pleased and not having problems typically won't say anything at all...
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Im rocking the OG evo, and this isnt my 1st phone, so im well aware of "new phone" bugs, (see sig) but these top bugs/annoyances im seeing seem really bad to me. Cuz its stuff that would affect me daily, but everyone's usage varies. Im sure its an awesome phone as a whole thats y i lurk here to see whats the latest with mods to fix it or actually updates pushed by sammy. y'all too sensitive with peoples opinions on phones.
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am i lying? are those not the top issues with this phone?
Im rocking the OG evo, and this isnt my 1st phone, so im well aware of "new phone" bugs, (see sig) but these top bugs/annoyances im seeing seem really bad to me. Cuz its stuff that would affect me daily, but everyone's usage varies. Im sure its an awesome phone as a whole thats y i lurk here to see whats the latest with mods to fix it or actually updates pushed by sammy. y'all too sensitive with peoples opinions on phones.
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Excellent point... The only bug that's serious to me is the random loss of service. That's potentially life-threatening. All the other bugs are just annoyances.
malibu_23 said:
am i lying? are those not the top issues with this phone?
Im rocking the OG evo, and this isnt my 1st phone, so im well aware of "new phone" bugs, (see sig) but these top bugs/annoyances im seeing seem really bad to me. Cuz its stuff that would affect me daily, but everyone's usage varies. Im sure its an awesome phone as a whole thats y i lurk here to see whats the latest with mods to fix it or actually updates pushed by sammy. y'all too sensitive with peoples opinions on phones.
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No, I'm not mad, and no you're not right:
heat issues
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heat issues = It's not really an issue at all. It gets barely hot, unless you're device is malfunctioned in which case you should return it
iffy battery = where the hell did you read this? If you're talking about the OS consumption at 50%+ then thats a lemon and needs to be returned. hence why only a very small percentage of people are having this problem
crummy radio/wifi = it's not on par with photon for example, but it's good enough, and not a deal breaker at all. I get 2-3 bars of 4g everywhere I go. As for as wifi I have no use for because like I said, i get 4g everywhere so I have no need for wifi.
apps/games = again, most likely a lemon, and needs to be returned
screen on delay = caused by sd card, and even though its annoying at times, its still not a deal breaker
fps lock = pretty sure it's not an fps lock. afaik most if not all android phones are stuck at 60fps. Also i'm pretty sure your og evo was locked at 30fps and you still bought it.
most of the things you described are bugs, and need to be returned to sprint. Phones are mass assembled and some of them will have these bugs, thats why you have a 14 day window to return the phone if you experience any problems.
comeatmebro said:
No, I'm not mad, and no you're not right:
heat issues = It's not really an issue at all. It gets barely hot, unless you're device is malfunctioned in which case you should return it
iffy battery = where the hell did you read this? If you're talking about the OS consumption at 50%+ then thats a lemon and needs to be returned. hence why only a very small percentage of people are having this problem
crummy radio/wifi = it's not on par with photon for example, but it's good enough, and not a deal breaker at all. I get 2-3 bars of 4g everywhere I go. As for as wifi I have no use for because like I said, i get 4g everywhere so I have no need for wifi.
apps/games = again, most likely a lemon, and needs to be returned
screen on delay = caused by sd card, and even though its annoying at times, its still not a deal breaker
fps lock = pretty sure it's not an fps lock. afaik most if not all android phones are stuck at 60fps. Also i'm pretty sure your og evo was locked at 30fps and you still bought it.
most of the things you described are bugs, and need to be returned to sprint. Phones are mass assembled and some of them will have these bugs, thats why you have a 14 day window to return the phone if you experience any problems.
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This is exactly what I would've said, except the game/apps closing out thing is a legit problem (just not a big one). my gameboid emulator drops out randomly, but my snesoid emulator works just fine. I have a feeling that's a compatibility issue, but i'm also known for blowing smoke up people's asses
malibu, you need to understand that we on xda represent a minority of phone owners. Therefore, if it's a "hot topic" here, I can guarantee you that more than 50% of the owners of this phone have no freaking idea what you're talking about. Therefore, you cannot call any of these issues "hot issues" except LOS because LOS is like puberty...it'll eventually happen to everyone unless they're freaks.
If you don't wanna upgrade to this phone, that's fine, but please go bother the people in the forum of the phone you do plan on buying. Thanks!
As for this 60 fps lock....hmmmm
I don't think so
Just picking up this phone today and i cant help but feel annoyed by the amount of lag this phone has compared to my (stock rom) i9100 SII. Slight lag switching homescreens and the lag is definitely noticeable in the web browser... Pinch to zoom and stuff isnt nearly as smooth on this thing.
the browser isnt anywhere near as smooth as it was on my i9100. Any of you guys exprience these same issues? is it normal for this phone considering it has a lesser processor than the exynos?
Again not meaning to start a flame war just comparing the differences to the phone i already own and wondering if anyone else here feels the same way ?.
Otherwise i really love the .2 inches of screen size!
Trust me weve heard it before .
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I haven't experienced an noticeable lag but then again i've never used the original with the exynos processor. It's still the fastest phone i've ever owned. It kills the g2x which was my first dualcore. I'm currently trying to roundup $, convince myself and making excuses to get the international galaxy nexus.
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Man if this is lagging, then all my previous phones were beyond lag!
Swyped from my iPhone eater
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Hey op, I came from the i9100 as well and know EXACTLY what you're talking about... unless you've used it long term, you don't know what your missing. Now for the fix, you need to flash BeastMod 2.5.... its a cyan colored ROM... IMHO it is the best ROM around here to help me not regret my decision to switch. I here jugs and bomb are as good as well. Its the difference in processor power... most people see 1.2 vs. 1.5 and think 1.5 is better... not here, Exynos 1.2 runs laps around this 1.5 phone... anyway, with a little Modding, you can be happy, I promise. If you need any help, let me know. I have the entire i9100 app collection if you are missing something special (screen adjustment wont work). Oh, the new BM2.5's kernel can be left alone, its great...
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this will answer some of those myth you hear about Exynos vs Qualcommn
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19461011#post19461011
and just for reference, no even on stock ROM the phone is very fluid, everything non stock is just icing on top. as in flashing just for the kick of having some fun, but it's not necessary to flash any of the Custom ROMs to make the phone faster
just remove all the bloatware that came preloaded with, and you'll be fine
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Just picking up this phone today and i cant help but feel annoyed by the amount of lag this phone has compared to my (stock rom) i9100 SII. Slight lag switching homescreens and the lag is definitely noticeable in the web browser... Pinch to zoom and stuff isnt nearly as smooth on this thing.
the browser isnt anywhere near as smooth as it was on my i9100. Any of you guys exprience these same issues? is it normal for this phone considering it has a lesser processor than the exynos?
Again not meaning to start a flame war just comparing the differences to the phone i already own and wondering if anyone else here feels the same way ?.
Otherwise i really love the .2 inches of screen size!
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unleashed12 said:
Just picking up this phone today and i cant help but feel annoyed by the amount of lag this phone has compared to my (stock rom) i9100 SII. Slight lag switching homescreens and the lag is definitely noticeable in the web browser... Pinch to zoom and stuff isnt nearly as smooth on this thing.
the browser isnt anywhere near as smooth as it was on my i9100. Any of you guys exprience these same issues? is it normal for this phone considering it has a lesser processor than the exynos?
Again not meaning to start a flame war just comparing the differences to the phone i already own and wondering if anyone else here feels the same way ?.
Otherwise i really love the .2 inches of screen size!
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Your phone was hardware accelerated aka the Exynos processor utilizing GPU resources.
The t989 hasn't gotten the appropriate GPU drivers but I'm sure the next ICS update should help fix things up nicely.
Keep your eyes peeled
yay
I've used both in person, and I know what he is talking about... the previous poster talking about the gpu acceleration is spot on. the international version is butter smooth at scrolling in the web browser, where ours isn't quite as quick. However... using bullet kernel it is getting very close! and once again, if ICS uses our hardware properly for hardware acceleration, we should be better off. Our hardware overall is slightly quicker than the exynos versions. See:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5053/vellamo-benchmarking-on-six-android-phones
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this will answer some of those myth you hear about Exynos vs Qualcommn
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19461011#post19461011
and just for reference, no even on stock ROM the phone is very fluid, everything non stock is just icing on top. as in flashing just for the kick of having some fun, but it's not necessary to flash any of the Custom ROMs to make the phone faster
just remove all the bloatware that came preloaded with, and you'll be fine
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I'm afraid this is simply because you own the t989 and not the i9100. Anybody that has ever used them side by side will tell you there is a world of difference in the fluidness of operation. I love my t989 now that IV modded it but when I pulled it out of the box after using the i9100 for months I considered it unusable to my standards. I know this hurts people's feelings who have spent their hard earned money on a device and are commuted to the idea that THEIRS is the best but until you use them side by side, there isn't an artical on the planet that will convince me they are anywhere near equal. That being said, I stick by my first post, with a good rom from here, you can make the t989 *almost* as fluid as the i9100.
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The international version never choked or stutterred playing modern combat 2.....
It was better and quicker but this is almost as good.
The main difference is hardware accelrration and gpu performance in games
I used the original for 3 months before getting this
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The international is 1.2 ghz and you can't overclock to 1.5 cuz it will overheat.
I am overclocked to 1.8 on my TMO SGS2 and it is still cool and running smooth.
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Why do people that had a i9100, saying it's better than the 989, currently own a 989?
why change to something inferior? (in your eyes)
Note: I never owned a i9100. Coming from a BB Torch, i can assure you the 989 is like a ferrari for me..
Because the i9100 is not compatible with Tmobile. If out were I would still have it.
I refuser to pay the att price for a smartphone plan
I was using an att Dumb phone plan with unlimited data, buy I wanted high speed data. So this was my only option, if I wanted to be able to enjoy fast data like everyone else
Data spotted on art dumb phone plan was about 1 Mg/s on a good day
The phone was a monster, especially with hardware acceleration, and was able to run the most demanding games free of lag.
If you don't play games, no big deal
but better graphics and processing power was a plus
I could go crazy mindlessly opening apps , switching windows like a mad man and it won't even give you one hiccup
This phone is right behind it tho
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kriEv said:
Why do people that had a i9100, saying it's better than the 989, currently own a 989?
why change to something inferior? (in your eyes)
Note: I never owned a i9100. Coming from a BB Torch, i can assure you the 989 is like a ferrari for me..
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i've played with the i9100 before i returned it back to the store, as it was not AWS compatible
both phones feels the same in stock, you'll only notice the difference after OC
the i9100 gets hot quickly at 1.5
i like the bigger larger screen of the T989 more
T989 is much better than I9100, not only screen size, but CPU and chip set as well
kriEv said:
Why do people that had a i9100, saying it's better than the 989, currently own a 989?
why change to something inferior? (in your eyes)
Note: I never owned a i9100. Coming from a BB Torch, i can assure you the 989 is like a ferrari for me..
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I'm with T-Mobile... that's why. Its not crazy inferior .. the i9100 is simply slightly better in my opinion (and in benchmarks). I too enjoy the bigger screen... to bad its a jacked up piece of crap bigger screen.... but hopefully supercurio fixes it for us! You always will have this when you say another phone is better in the lesser phones forums.. but I own a t989 and love it... I owned the i9100 and loved it to... on a side note, I oced my i9100 a week after I got it and had it for months and it never felt even remotely warm... I'm not sure why people are saying that.. maybe some did, but not mine... but let's say it did get warm.. as long as the screen doesn't have discoloration, lines, and blobs, and its the fastest phone to date, who cares if it gets warm? I can think of a billion other things that would make me trash a phone before that.. kind of a silly point to try to make. But all joking aside, I really enjoy the t989 and can live with the minor discrepancies, just like I have with every other phone IV ever owned. Its a great phone, just like all the other sgs2s out there.
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I honestly believe that the inferior performance in the launcher and browser are due to inefficient code rather than any hardware discrepancy. The Adreno 220 is far, far more than powerful enough to hardware accelerate the entire UI/UI animations at a constant 60FPS.
I used a i9100 in Taiwan a while ago, before any variant came out in the US. I can definitely vouch for daddymatt's comments. Debloated and supercharged, it runs much smoother. Enough to the point where the difference isn't really noticeable if you aren't directly looking for it. Still, I'm quite angry with T-Mo's decision to ditch the Exynos for the Snapdragon chip. I'd rather have slower download speeds than worse performance - no one's entire smartphone experience consists of nothing but web browsing.
The screen issues are annoying as well - This is the best phone on T-Mobile, but the fact that it could be so much better makes me peeved.
I'm hoping the ICS update can correct these issues.
TheBoldImperator said:
I honestly believe that the inferior performance in the launcher and browser are due to inefficient code rather than any hardware discrepancy. The Adreno 220 is far, far more than powerful enough to hardware accelerate the entire UI/UI animations at a constant 60FPS.
I used a i9100 in Taiwan a while ago, before any variant came out in the US. I can definitely vouch for daddymatt's comments. Debloated and supercharged, it runs much smoother. Enough to the point where the difference isn't really noticeable if you aren't directly looking for it. Still, I'm quite angry with T-Mo's decision to ditch the Exynos for the Snapdragon chip. I'd rather have slower download speeds than worse performance - no one's entire smartphone experience consists of nothing but web browsing.
The screen issues are annoying as well - This is the best phone on T-Mobile, but the fact that it could be so much better makes me peeved.
I'm hoping the ICS update can correct these issues.
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Qualcomm decided to use one system bus most likely to save money. While it is still good due to asynchronous processers. The gpu has to wait most likely milliseconds for the cpu. A scheduler is required to organize the traffic by assigning frequencies and priorities to each signal. By in no means is it worst performance other than benchmarks and on paper. Your running android any software optimized around the processor enough the difference wouldn't be noticeable. The other processors i think(don't hold me to that) have two system bus. Even the old second gen scorpions had two which was a complete waste of the money but made them on top for various reasons.
you mustve picked up a bad t989 and a really good i9100
my friend had one of those international versions, let me tell ya..it took exactly 20seconds to zoom into a picture..and his phone was heating up..
galaxyst said:
T989 is much better than I9100, not only screen size, but CPU and chip set as well
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that's a bit far fetched, they are about at par with each other, tech spec wise the I9100 is a tad bit better, but in real life performance as far as us human are concerned, it feels the same.
except when OC-ed, then you'll notice some significant difference on either phone depending on which custom ROM you use.
Anyone here able to compare the battery life of the Nexus, to an iPhone 4 or 4S (a 4S WITHOUT the battery issue)? I've gotten amazing battery life on my iDevices. I can't imagine getting worse battery life again like I used to on my other Android phones.
And also, what battery solutions could I use if I want a bigger battery? Any extended batteries + covers out there I could buy? I don't just want an extra battery to replace during the day, cuz that'd be a pain.
Thanks in advance!
edit: I'm not a light user - I might go as far as to say I'm a heavy user.
not sure on the GSM version, but I can promise you the LTE model is going to be complete crap compared to an iphone.
on my old iphone 3gs, I could watch like 4 movies & still browse the net for a bit before the battery died... on my thunderbolt & rezound I could watch like 1 movie & then browsr the net for about an hour.
even if you disable LTE(or go into airplane mode for that matter) its only going to help slightly.
you will have to invest in an extended battery unless you are someone who does "light use".
voxigenboy said:
not sure on the GSM version, but I can promise you the LTE model is going to be complete crap compared to an iphone.
on my old iphone 3gs, I could watch like 4 movies & still browse the net for a bit before the battery died... on my thunderbolt & rezound I could watch like 1 movie & then browsr the net for about an hour.
even if you disable LTE(or go into airplane mode for that matter) its only going to help slightly.
you will have to invest in an extended battery unless you are someone who does "light use".
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Gsm version is completely crap. The one who says it is OK must be a newbie and does not have a lot of experience in smartphones.
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ljwnow said:
Gsm version is completely crap. The one who says it is OK must be a newbie and does not have a lot of experience in smartphones.
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My battery life is just fine, and I'm hardly a newbie. Perhaps you don't have your phone set up in an optimal way. You should have no problem getting through a day of normal use, and you can get through a day of heavy use without charging. With 3hrs of talk and 3 hrs of screen time (auto brightness), with push email, bluetooth, wifi, and gps on I was able to still get 15+hrs of battery life before it got under 10%. Not sure how you have your phone set up, but my battery life is just fine.
ljwnow said:
Gsm version is completely crap. The one who says it is OK must be a newbie and does not have a lot of experience in smartphones.
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The irony here is mind bending!
ljwnow said:
Gsm version is completely crap. The one who says it is OK must be a newbie and does not have a lot of experience in smartphones.
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^absolute bollocks.
I'm not a newbie and have both devices. The battery life on the GN is absolutely fine, yes the 4s is better, particularly when on standby, but I can get a good days use out of either phone.
One thing that I found annoying with my NS was the time it took to charge, the GN is far quicker and similar to the 4s.
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I am no newbie.
ljwnow said:
Gsm version is completely crap. The one who says it is OK must be a newbie and does not have a lot of experience in smartphones.
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I've had 5 Android phones so I know that the GN battery life is better than most. I easily get a day of heavy use out of it.
nafem said:
I've had 5 Android phones so I know that the GN battery life is better than most. I easily get a day of heavy use out of it.
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I even prefer the htc inspire over my sgn... I hope the battery on my sgn could get better when more battery usage tweaks are made available. We'll see.
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Battery life its significantly worse than iphone 4 and galaxy s2. I've had a number of android phones and galaxy nexus has worst battery life of them all
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Wouldn't know much about the iphones, but compared to my previous phones (Nexus s, and a HTC Hero before that) the Galaxy Nexus is NOTICEABLY BETTER. I have no problem going a full day on single charge with heavy use. Or two full days with light use.
these topics are useless. galaxy nexus is a dev/debug phone.
i spend more time with it connected to the computer than anything else.
why are people comparing android devices to apple devices. it's just plain useless.
Actually battery life is really good the issue comes with how fast the screen drains the battery. Considering smiled power consumption is based on lit pixels and there are a lot more here than the s2
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bk201doesntexist said:
these topics are useless. galaxy nexus is a dev/debug phone.
i spend more time with it connected to the computer than anything else.
why are people comparing android devices to apple devices. it's just plain useless.
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Comparing to iphone is not useless at all since that is the alternative many are considering out coming from. Just because you use the phone mostly for development doesn't mean others do.
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I have the following:
GNEX GSM
iPhone 4 (GSM on ATT) - work phone
iPhone 4S (GSM on ATT) - wife's phone
The battery life on the iPhones is about double what the GNEX is, easily. I can do two days between charges on the iPhone even with normal use. The GNEX requires charging every night.
Do I care? Nope. I charge my phone every night anyway and always buy spare batteries.
Who in the world is away from a plug at night? Do you live in the woods?
I just don't see what the big deal is. If the battery died in 4 hrs on standby, I can understand. But it easily cruises through the whole day.
That's fine by me.
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That's my battery after a full day of I would say heavy usage, for me at least.
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That's my battery after a full day of I would say heavy usage, for me at least.
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It's more helpful if you also post your screen time and Android OS stats. That screenshot really tells us nothing without that info.
Crazy good batt on mine. I'm running an all back wallpaper and it spanks the holy hell out of my former 4 and 4s.
bmstrong said:
Crazy good batt on mine. I'm running an all back wallpaper and it spanks the holy hell out of my former 4 and 4s.
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Yep. For those who complain of battery life, I bet you are running lookout mobile, skype, and a live wallpaper, lol.
Download "colors" from the android market, set wallpaper to solid black. Don't run junk apps that are on 24/7 and watch your battery last all day long.
Simple, really.
ericshmerick said:
Yep. For those who complain of battery life, I bet you are running lookout mobile, skype, and a live wallpaper, lol.
Download "colors" from the android market, set wallpaper to solid black. Don't run junk apps that are on 24/7 and watch your battery last all day long.
Simple, really.
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God. All black? Why not go back to Nokia 1110. LMAO
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bmstrong said:
Crazy good batt on mine. I'm running an all back wallpaper and it spanks the holy hell out of my former 4 and 4s.
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I know the battery consumption on this phone freaks me out. I am actually considering selling it and return to HTC...Oh man htc saves my life every single time. Samsung needs to learn.
Def worse than my iPhone 4. In my case I decided to stock on chargers rather than becoming a lighter user
Hello everyone.
I might be trading in my Razr Maxx for the Nexus soon. I have 4 questions.
1. I come from a thunderbolt. That battery is horrid, do you understand me? HORRID. The Razr Maxx is a really nice improvement but I don't need all the juice which opened to me the oppurtunity to get the Nexus. How is the battery on it? I mainly make a few calls, text a lot, check email, and browse the web, watch the occasional 2-3 minute video. Will ROMs fix this?
2. I hear stuff about the signal being bad? It drops a lot? Then again I hear about this leak and it may fix it? What are you Nexus users thoughts on that?
3. How can you describe the overall phone?
4. Lastly, here's where you guys can go crazy, why should I get it over the Razr Maxx?
Why should you get a nexus? Read the dozens of threads in this section asking the same question, there's a new one almost daily. You're asking Galaxy Nexus owners about this device versus a locked down Razr Maxx, take a guess what they're going to say.
All the questions you asked can be answered by reading the threads, some are on the first page.
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Icey34 said:
Hello everyone.
I might be trading in my Razr Maxx for the Nexus soon. I have 4 questions.
1. I come from a thunderbolt. That battery is horrid, do you understand me? HORRID. The Razr Maxx is a really nice improvement but I don't need all the juice which opened to me the oppurtunity to get the Nexus. How is the battery on it? I mainly make a few calls, text a lot, check email, and browse the web, watch the occasional 2-3 minute video. Will ROMs fix this?
2. I hear stuff about the signal being bad? It drops a lot? Then again I hear about this leak and it may fix it? What are you Nexus users thoughts on that?
3. How can you describe the overall phone?
4. Lastly, here's where you guys can go crazy, why should I get it over the Razr Maxx?
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I'm bored, I'll bite.
1. I get about 3 hours of screen-on time with 3G, maybe an hour more if I'm on wifi. It will standby forever. Custom ROMs/kernels help a little with battery life, but not enough to really change your overall perception of the phone's longevity. I have the stock 1850mAH battery.
2. I generally doesn't display a signal as high as other Verizon phones, but some chock that up to other phones displaying the signal inaccurately. There are a very small amount of people who have legitimately low signal with their Nexus (which can be verified in dBm), and it's usually accepted that these units are defective. That said, I've had mine since 12/15/11, and I haven't dropped a single call or been without data.
3. It's got a nice form-factor (if you don't mind the plastic construction), the screen is great, and ICS rocks. I really like it.
4. RAZR MAXX has it on battery, that's about it. Ice Cream Sandwich is lightyears ahead of Gingerbread, especially with Moto not-blur and a locked bootloader. I wouldn't even consider owning a Gingerbread phone after having a Galaxy Nexus. The form factor is important; the software absolutely makes or breaks a device.
guess your right, I'll look around.
edit: Stad, read your post thanks. So it's not as bad as a thunderbolt (idk if you've owned one, it's like 7 hours w/ 4g minor minor usage). And it's not the best battery right? That's my deciding point right there.
Their is only 2 phones to buy.
A Nexus or an iphone.
Everything else is crap. Full of bloat and skins. Never see updates.
Lol, true.
I know there's always a bricking chance when screwing with root/bootloader shenanigans, but how safe is it on the Nexus?
Turb0wned said:
Their is only 2 phones to buy.
A Nexus or an iphone.
Everything else is crap. Full of bloat and skins. Never see updates.
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I totally agree. There are other phones I would consider owning, but only if these two weren't options.
edit: Stad, read your post thanks. So it's not as bad as a thunderbolt (idk if you've owned one, it's like 7 hours w/ 4g minor minor usage). And it's not the best battery right? That's my deciding point right there.
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Honestly I keep 4G off all the time unless I need the speed. I don't know about you, but I've found Verizon's 3G to have acceptable speeds for 99% of the situations I'm using it. The ROM I'm using (AOKP Milestone 3) has nice toggles in the pull-down notification bar, so it's really easy to turn LTE on and off if I need it.
I've heard of people getting better battery life. There's a guy over at Rootz who got 4h50m screen-on with AOKP and imoseyon's leanKernel on a standard battery, but I haven't been able to get anywhere close to that.
In real-world usage, the battery life is plenty. Yesterday I woke up at 4am and wasn't in bed until 11:30pm that night, and my phone still had 38% battery left when I crawled into bed. I forgot to plug it in when I fell asleep, and woke up to see it at 36% about 5 hours later. But, if it's not clear by now, not much of that was screen-on.
I know there's always a bricking chance when screwing with root/bootloader shenanigans, but how safe is it on the Nexus?
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Unless you pull your battery while flashing a bootloader (which you might do once or twice during the life of the phone, if at all), you'd have to be trying pretty hard to actually BRICK your Nexus. The bootloader is unlocked with a single line in fastboot mode, and ROM flashes-gone-bad can always be recovered as long as the bootloader is borked. This phone is ridiculously easy to modify.
That's great thanks for all the info.
Did the rootz guy run on 4g or was that 3g, I'll find out myself if u link the post.
Now to stare at the two phones for 8 hours and see what I choose, lol.
Icey34 said:
That's great thanks for all the info.
Did the rootz guy run on 4g or was that 3g, I'll find out myself if u link the post.
Now to stare at the two phones for 8 hours and see what I choose, lol.
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No problem, enjoy whatever phone you end up getting.
Here's that post: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/16782-aokp-kernel-discussionthread/page__view__findpost__p__448613
In his own words,
Mostly 3g usage with some wifi used intermittently and a quick 4g download.
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Looks like he gave it a quick bump at some point during the day, though.
Okay, thanks. That's it for now thanks for fast replies.
This is on the GSM version, but I got 13 hours and 50 minutes of battery my firs day, with over 5.5 hours of screen on time. Pretty good, I'd say!
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i have been using the SGN a month now. here is my pro and con
pro:
4G speed
con:
no keyboard prediction on browser
no fixed landscape mode
no permanent desktop mode
3 hrs of web surfing
battery life on gaming? good luck
lag once in a while
photo from stock camera are little bit washout
no facebook sync
Once the signal got dropped, it takes a while to reconnect.
all in all, i need to charge 2 or 3 times per day on average use (my average use). if i dont see improvement on 4.0.4 or future update, i am moving to iphone 5. i have been using android over 2 yrs now and still havent find any advantage over iphone.
zeke1988 said:
i have been using the SGN a month now. here is my pro and con
pro:
4G speed
con:
no keyboard prediction on browser
no fixed landscape mode
no permanent desktop mode
3 hrs of web surfing
battery life on gaming? good luck
lag once in a while
photo from stock camera are little bit washout
no facebook sync
all in all, i need to charge 2 or 3 times per day on average use (my average use)
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Ouch. I'll take that into account. What do you mean by facebook sync? I can't sync friends on facebook to my phone?
Icey34 said:
Ouch. I'll take that into account. What do you mean by facebook sync? I can't sync friends on facebook to my phone?
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contact sync, it connect your contacts with their facebook account. there are roms out there that has the fix and there are work around, but i dont like it.
ah okay got ya
zeke1988 said:
i have been using the SGN a month now. here is my pro and con
pro:
4G speed
con:
no keyboard prediction on browser
no fixed landscape mode
no permanent desktop mode
3 hrs of web surfing
battery life on gaming? good luck
lag once in a while
photo from stock camera are little bit washout
no facebook sync
Once the signal got dropped, it takes a while to reconnect.
all in all, i need to charge 2 or 3 times per day on average use (my average use). if i dont see improvement on 4.0.4 or future update, i am moving to iphone 5. i have been using android over 2 yrs now and still havent find any advantage over iphone.
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Sounds like you need to get a Droid Razr MAXX to address your battery issues. Maybe you guys can do a swap?
gravis86 said:
This is on the GSM version, but I got 13 hours and 50 minutes of battery my firs day, with over 5.5 hours of screen on time. Pretty good, I'd say!
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What are your settings?
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Sounds like you need to get a Droid Razr MAXX. Maybe you guys can do a swap?
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I don't NEED one as my usage won't be enough to really use the 3300 mah battery but the Nexus battery seems enough for me and I can't wait to tweak it with better kernals.
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I don't NEED one as my usage won't be enough to really use the 3300 mah battery but the Nexus battery seems enough for me and I can't wait to tweak it with better kernals.
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My bad, I was talking to zeke1988. I added his quote to my post.
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What are your settings?
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I'm on Eagles Blood ROM, using Franco kernel. Stock clock with ondemand governor. All I did was undervolt 50mA across all frequencies. I was on wifi for most of the day since I was at home, but my typical work day doesn't put the battery under 50%.
The battery on this is way better than the one on my Amaze was, so that's all I really care about.
I've had the Galaxy Nexus LTE for nearly 11 months on Verizon. I've done what I can to stem battery drain. At some point, I just gave up diagnosing the problem and started carrying 5-6 spare batteries with me. Some people claim one day's use; others report the same problems. I think it all depends on how we use our phones--eg do you take a lot of pictures--and what apps we have installed. I use the phone hard but not that hard. Sometimes the phone will burn the battery just being in the pocket.
I don't want this to be another Galaxy Nexus battery life sucks thread. What I want to know is whether the battery drain problem will be solved before we consider moving onto phones running 4.2.
Some of the drain is due to the terrible LTE radio. Phones with integrated chips have much less hardware drain.
But about the software drain? When I run GSam Battery Monitor, the number culprits seem to be Media Scanner (Server?), acore processes--contacts, user dictionary.
I've dialed down or turned off syncs as far as I reasonably can; are rogue apps causing problems or is the OS too easy to trip up?
If you search http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list for "media battery," you see a lot of bug reports about the problem.
The Google Android team doesn't seem to care about these problems.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11731#c5
"I'm only posting this here for my own amusement. My track record with Android bug reports is that Google ignores them for 2 years and then closes them without taking any corrective action. Good luck everyone."
Here's a typical bug report from mid-2011, that is still labeled new and unassigned:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18115
4.1.2 has the os drain:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38720
Going into 4.2, how do we track these issues and see if they are getting fixed? I'm not a dev... The only way we can see the 4.2 source and commits is to clone the repo using git? Is there a friendly web interact through which we can see the changes?
Do we wait until 4.2 is released and see what defects are reported on the issue tracker?
Please don't let this be a typical battery life sucks thread, where people will
1) complain that they also have bad battery life
2) complaint that they have great battery life and don't see these problems
3) suggest debugging these problems with CPU SPY, BetterBatteryStats, etc
4) suggest fixing these problems with .nomedia
I want to know how we as users can track what Google is doing or has done to fix these problems in 4.2, so we, as Android devotees, can have faith in migrating to those devices.
dynamicpda said:
I've had the Galaxy Nexus LTE for nearly 11 months on Verizon. I've done what I can to stem battery drain. At some point, I just gave up diagnosing the problem and started carrying 5-6 spare batteries with me. Some people claim one day's use; others report the same problems. I think it all depends on how we use our phones--eg do you take a lot of pictures--and what apps we have installed. I use the phone hard but not that hard. Sometimes the phone will burn the battery just being in the pocket.
I don't want this to be another Galaxy Nexus battery life sucks thread. What I want to know is whether the battery drain problem will be solved before we consider moving onto phones running 4.2.
Some of the drain is due to the terrible LTE radio. Phones with integrated chips have much less hardware drain.
But about the software drain? When I run GSam Battery Monitor, the number culprits seem to be Media Scanner (Server?), acore processes--contacts, user dictionary.
I've dialed down or turned off syncs as far as I reasonably can; are rogue apps causing problems or is the OS too easy to trip up?
If you search http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list for "media battery," you see a lot of bug reports about the problem.
The Google Android team doesn't seem to care about these problems.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11731#c5
"I'm only posting this here for my own amusement. My track record with Android bug reports is that Google ignores them for 2 years and then closes them without taking any corrective action. Good luck everyone."
Here's a typical bug report from mid-2011, that is still labeled new and unassigned:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18115
4.1.2 has the os drain:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38720
Going into 4.2, how do we track these issues and see if they are getting fixed? I'm not a dev... The only way we can see the 4.2 source and commits is to clone the repo using git? Is there a friendly web interact through which we can see the changes?
Do we wait until 4.2 is released and see what defects are reported on the issue tracker?
Please don't let this be a typical battery life sucks thread, where people will
1) complain that they also have bad battery life
2) complaint that they have great battery life and don't see these problems
3) suggest debugging these problems with CPU SPY, BetterBatteryStats, etc
4) suggest fixing these problems with .nomedia
I want to know how we as users can track what Google is doing or has done to fix these problems in 4.2, so we, as Android devotees, can have faith in migrating to those devices.
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Any Tom, ****, or Harry can post issues. Most of the time they don't have the technical knowledge to even know what a bug is. Don't confuse Google not caring vs. Google not willing to accept a ticket caused by something out of their control.
As for your case, you have a Verizon Nexus. They ALL suck on battery compared to other devices.
You say you don't want this to devolve into a typical battery thread but it will.
dynamicpda said:
***blah blah battery vampires***
I've had the Galaxy Nexus LTE for nearly 11 months on Verizon.
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no lte in the nexus 4, sounds like they chased off the battery sucker to me.
I'd you're using your phone as a laptop, it's time to buy a laptop. Otherwise, the turn if syncing for things you use once a day. Actively using data (especially over LTE) with a large screen burns battery on any device. If you are burning battery in your pocket, you either need to sync less or identify the rogue app that is doing the work. And Google does use the bug reports to make improvements. A recent bug in Chrome removed names from the shortcuts in the bookmarks bar and it was fixed within a week. Android rakes longer due to the wide spectrum of devices and overall update process. Bugs in an OS are a different beast than bugs in a browser.
From the sounds of things, you will have battery issues on any device.
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cry bro :crying:
simms22 said:
no lte in the nexus 4, sounds like they chased off the battery sucker to me.
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Qft
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adrynalyne said:
Any Tom, ****, or Harry can post issues. Most of the time they don't have the technical knowledge to even know what a bug is. Don't confuse Google not caring vs. Google not willing to accept a ticket caused by something out of their control.
As for your case, you have a Verizon Nexus. They ALL suck on battery compared to other devices.
You say you don't want this to devolve into a typical battery thread but it will.
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Go by the evidence. The Media Server / Scanner drain problem still exists in 4.1.2
Complaining about battery life on an LTE device is like dropping a 600HP engine in your car and complaining about your gas mileage going down.
So lets say an LTE phone has an enormous battery in it, this might give you "respectable" battery life... but take that same huge battery and put it in a GSM phone and watch the battery life go from "respectable" to "incredible".
If battery life is what you need... you might consider going GSM. With heavy use I usually end up at about 30-40% at the end of the day...
Of course, as stated above, the media scanner bug is still there... but from my experience, LTE is the biggest "battery vampire" by a landslide.
I can't wait to see how many "battery life sucks on N4" threads are created.
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Soldier 2.0 said:
I can't wait to see how many "battery life sucks on N4" threads are created.
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Oh it's coming... It's coming... Best believe it! Lol.
Honestly, it's just the way it is so ppl need to get over it. If they buy the Nexus and complain about the non-removable battery, then they should have gotten a different phone instead. Like an S3.
mackster248 said:
Oh it's coming... It's coming... Best believe it! Lol.
Honestly, it's just the way it is so ppl need to get over it. If they buy the Nexus and complain about the non-removable battery, then they should have gotten a different phone instead. Like an S3.
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i thought that i would be complaining about the non removable battery in my nexus 7, but it doesnt bother me anymore
There's no lte buddy ur mistaken
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modgadgets said:
There's no lte buddy ur mistaken
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Read harder...
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"5 or 6 spare batteries" ROFL.
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That's 4 days of actual on time (I turn it off at night, ~15 hours a day). That's closing in on what my old Nokia and Sony feature phones clocked in at.
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Bam
That's 4 days of actual on time (I turn it off at night, ~15 hours a day). That's closing in on what my old Nokia and Sony feature phones clocked in at.
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First, turning it off at night, makes your "4 days" statement entirely false, automatically. Second, 1 hour 20 minutes screen on time is terrible, even for a known battery sucker like the gnex. Third, the only thing might slightly warrant a pardon for that screen on time, would be the fact that you did get over 2 days on it, if not for Fourth (and finally) the fact that your phone clearly shows that your didn't use it at all.
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First, turning it off at night, makes your "4 days" statement entirely false, automatically. Second, 1 hour 20 minutes screen on time is terrible, even for a known battery sucker like the gnex. Third, the only thing might slightly warrant a pardon for that screen on time, would be the fact that you did get over 2 days on it, if not for Fourth (and finally) the fact that your phone clearly shows that your didn't use it at all.
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4 days of my use, where is there false information? Still on the same charge, 1 hour 41 mins now. 61 hours with real world use is not bad, especially since despite you seemingly knowing how I use my phone, I was using it for texting, a few calls, I used google maps, updated some stuff and other random crap. A lot can be done in an hour and a half.
And finally, the entire point of this thread is the android process sucking up battery, which is why I posted a picture showing the contrary. How about you find something credible to ***** about.
Maybe if you stop using that ugly, bloated, stupid ROM your Android process usage will be reduced.
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Soldier 2.0 said:
Maybe if you stop using that ugly, bloated, stupid ROM your Android process usage will be reduced.
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Hahaa yessss!!!
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